Example sentences of "not [vb infin] around [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The armed robber , needless to say , did not stay around to be sued . |
| 2 | It does not rampage around like a chariot for example . |
| 3 | Rincewind did not glance around for fear of the terrible things he might see , and by the time Withel looked for him again he was on the other side of the Plaza , and still accelerating . |
| 4 | This is odd as over 85 per cent of Saabs , including Carlssons , are sold to business users , who presumably do not hang around outside nightclubs in the evening . |
| 5 | Only the suspicion that he had something important to say and could not work around to saying it kept her out there with him . |
| 6 | Five-year-old Boris Primorac suffers from a rare blood disorder which means he can not run around like other children , without severe bruising . |
| 7 | Hostel dwellers do not move around from place to place as much as many people think . |
| 8 | You do not call out , you do not lay around on the floor . |
| 9 | ‘ Do not fence around with me , ’ he snapped . |
| 10 | ‘ … who bears a close resemblance to our school janitor , Aziz — although , as far as I know , Aziz does not wander around with a tea towel on his head organizing terrorist attacks — Yasser Arafat — ’ |
| 11 | But I would rather not fiddle around with other , I 'd rather have not done tha well , no I wanted to do language when I when I put my options down , but now , |
| 12 | The evolutionary advantage of this is that the animal need not lie around in a torpid state , vulnerable to attack . |
| 13 | Our main 1979 survey suggested that weekly-collection credit users do not shop around for bargains as much as others . |
| 14 | The plaintiff can not shop around for the best offer , the two parties must deal with each other and strike an acceptable bargain through their own negotiating skill . |